Elections

“Texas Republicans just voted to give a Republican appointee the power to single-handedly CANCEL election results in the state’s largest Democratic county.”

PolitiFact says: The Texas Senate voted in favor of SB 1993, which says the secretary of state will call for a new election if a county runs out of ballots at 2% of voting sites, but it only applies to Harris County.

“A Florida elections bill “guts everything” “instead of getting tough, and doing what the people want (same day voting, Voter ID, proof of Citizenship, paper ballots, hand count, etc.).”

PolitiFact says: Florida Republican lawmakers passed a bill that makes multiple changes to election law but it doesn't get rid of security measures.

“Blackrock owns shares in both Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News and sued itself.”

“Video depicts VVPAT slips being removed from the strong room, despite the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 requiring VVPAT slips to be preserved for one year following the elections”

FACTLY says: Though the time and location of the video is unknown, the video doesn’t show any wrongdoing. The workers can be seen extracting the VVPAT slips from the machine and preserving them after counting as per the guidelines o…

“BlackRock owns 59 million shares of Dominion Voting Systems and 45.7 million shares of Fox News. BlackRock sued itself and fired Tucker Carlson as part of the lawsuit.”

PolitiFact says: BlackRock, an investment management company, owns shares of Fox Corp. and shares of the company Dominion Energy. We found nothing linking the energy company and Dominion Voting Systems beyond having similar names.

“BJP to get absolute majority – 140+ seats as per BBC survey. There are about 4.92 crores beneficiaries of various flag ship schemes of Modijee in Karnataka. Even if BJP consolidate 3 crores of beneficiaries vote, BJP is done with 140+ seats. 150 is also possible.”

“The below video explains the mood of #Karnataka voter. The amount of agony, angst & pain is real and evident on the ground 👇 #KarnatakaElection2023”

“Visuals related to the upcoming Karnataka elections 2023”

FACTLY says: These are old videos and have nothing to do with the upcoming assembly general elections in Karnataka in 2023. While one of the videos is related to the West Bengal general election held in April 2021, the other two vid…

“6 criminal-politicians,including #AtiqAhmad were furloughed from diff. jails in just 48 hrs with little fanfare in 2008, with a book on “Baahubalis” claiming their votes were crucial to save the embattled UPA govt and India’s civil nuclear deal with US.”

“Screenshot of the ABP opinion poll predicting 115-117 seats to BJP and 68-80 seats to Congress in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023”

FACTLY says: The ABP News bulletin photo shared in the post is a morphed one. The ABP-CVoter survey opinion poll had predicted 115-117 seats for Congress and 68-80 seats for BJP in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023

“Congress CM Ashok Gehlot said if he can demand Hindu Rashtra then why can’t Amritpal demand Khalistan. The Congress is so shaken that in this panic, Gehlot ji has forgotten that only a Khalistani had killed Indira Gandhi just for the sake of votes.”

“A video shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis saying, “Now Trump’s been indicted, now the people will have no choice but to accept me as their assigned candidate.”

PolitiFact says: DeSantis has not announced that he’s running for president in 2024. This is a deepfake video that was first shared as a joke by a pro-Donald Trump social media account.

“Regarding Trump’s January 2021 telephone call with Georgia election officials, “nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call until a book promotion tour many months later.”

PolitiFact says: Multiple politicians promptly criticized Trump’s phone call and the Fulton County District Attorney launched an investigation weeks later.

“Campaign ad claims at a Wisconsin school, a 12-year-old girl "was transitioned into a boy by school officials without parental consent," and Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz supports it.”

“The Marcos administration is getting closer to the campaign promise of bringing down the price of rice to P20 per kilo.”

Vera Files says: While it is correct that well-milled rice can be bought at P25 per kilo, it should be clear that this is available only at the Kadiwa stores managed by the National Food Authority (NFA). In fact, the Department of Agric…

“A lady and her bahu got into a crowded bus. Lady gets a seat. The bahu sees the driver’s seat vacant and occupies it. When the driver comes and asks the bahu to vacate his seat see what she says!! And we wonder how Modi ji wins elections.”

“A $2 million grant for Georgia’s DeKalb County amounts to a “private takeover of election offices.”

PolitiFact says: Grant funds can be used for equipment and materials, voting sites or personnel, but that doesn't amount to a takeover. Local election officials will continue to administer elections based on state laws.

“Zee News report on the results of the exit polls of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh Assembly elections”

FACTLY says: The news report in the viral video was uploaded on the official YouTube channel of Zee News on 7 December 2018. The report was on the exit poll results of the Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh assembly election…

“The 2020 election could not have been fair because “Los Angeles County agreed, during litigation, that there were 1.2 million ineligible voters after the election.”

PolitiFact says: Having inactive voters on the voter rolls is common nationwide and does not signal that an election was not fair. Election officials must take steps to remove inactive voters as outlined in federal law.

“Invite a duffer to talk on geopolitics, who insults his nation in a foreign country and mocks democratic election process in front of global mafia, this is what happens. You lose credibility for giving such a duffer with zero credibility a public platform.”